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Tweetz is a Windows Sidebar twitter client that doesn’t suck (well, at least not too badly). I’ve updated the gadget based on feedback and using it. Here’s a couple of new screen shots of the undocked and docked versions.

Notable changes include:

The “What are you doing?” at the bottom is gone. Click the title area at the top.

Favorites, Search and User tabs added

Direct messaging added

Fixes to keep ClearType from going into the crapper

Improved layout. Docked version excludes images.

Better Jquery integration including http support

More readable font

Lots of other little improvements

Changed the polling for the home tab from 3 minutes to 2 minutes

Most of the work has been in trying to make the user experience more fluid and natural. That sounds like a lot of marketing speak but believe me, it isn’t. With so little space to work in, having to use JavaScript and dealing with the oddities of IE6/7, it makes for some real work.

This version “feels” much better to me than the earlier version. I’m working on Favorites, Searching and User accounts next. If you have a “request”, feel free to send it along.

The downloads page has the latest version. Live Gallery usually takes a day or more to update.